Show BIRD IS WORTH preserving writer deplores the threatened ex of the beautiful and useful upland plover the upland plover one of the lie most beneficial lairds of all the ringed host that once abounded in north america has been hunted and shot to tile the verge of extermination says dumb animals with the passing of the passenger pigeons which even now so many friends of all birds find it hard to believe and of which a great many a are re not con conduced the plovers wei e marked tor for wholesale hole sale destruction they were nvere candidate for oblivion along with more diore than a score core of other useful and beautiful species that could be ill spared from our vast and valuable native fauna there Is a ray of hope that these birds may not be pursued to complete annihilation the federal law for the protection of migratory birds makes it possible for tile the plover species to rehabilitate itself provided the closed season be fixed to continue throughout the year the upland plover Is a mi antory bird and an insectivorous bir bird its food consists of 97 per cent of animal forms which are chiefly the worst ener demies energies nies to agriculture the federal law flies fires a closed season on migratory insectivorous birds to continue throughout the year with the alie exception of t the bobolink or ricebird cebird rl but under the law the plover Is classed as a migratory game bird and so its tale fate Is precarious these birds should not be shot |